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Queen's Speech 2015: 'Legal Highs' Banned Under New Bill Covering 'New Generation Of Psychoactive Drugs'

Submitted by Marijuana News on Thu, 05/28/2015 - 09:37

The Queen has announced the government's plan to ban so-called 'legal highs', the new wave of untested recreational drugs springing up in the UK.

A new Bill announced by Her Majesty in The Queen's Speech 2015 will ban the drugs popularly known as "legal highs", with a blanket ban on anyone producing or supplying them.

At the state opening of Parliament today, The Queen said that new legislation would "ban the new generation of psychoactive drugs".

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'Legal highs' have boomed in popularity

 

The complete ban on what are known as new psychoactive substances (NPS) would mean that selling newly-created or newly-used drugs that can cause effects in mood, perception or consciousness would be illegal, with a maximum penalty of seven years imprisonment.

The Centre For Social Justice found last year that there were 97 deaths caused by 'legal highs' in 2012.

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